DAY 77 INTO EARLY DAY 78 · SEPTEMBER 21–22, 2026
FINAL FOUR: TAYLOR BROWN, DEE VALLADARES, RICK DEVENS AND DREW CAMPBELL
HEAD OF HOUSEHOLD: TAYLOR BROWN
NOMINEES: DEE VALLADARES AND DREW CAMPBELL
OFF THE BLOCK: RICK DEVENS
FINAL FOUR POWER OF VETO: NO WINNER CONFIRMED AT THE COVERAGE CUTOFF
GUARANTEED FINAL THREE: TAYLOR BROWN
LIVE FEEDS CONTINUATION WINDOW: THE FINAL FOUR HOH OUTAGE THAT CLOSED THE PREVIOUS UPDATE THROUGH 1:38 AM BBT ON SEPTEMBER 22. ALL TIMES BELOW ARE BIG BROTHER TIME, PACIFIC.
Taylor Brown took the one available HOH result that would force Dee Valladares, Rick Devens and Drew Campbell to turn on one another. After surviving the round that sent Melody Morris to jury, Taylor won the Final Four Head of Household competition Monday and guaranteed herself a place in the Final Three. The trio could keep making promises, comparing jury votes and talking about finishing together. They could no longer make all three of their games survive the week.
That is where this Big Brother 28 Day 77 to Day 78 live feeds update picks up. The previous update ended with the house waiting for a new HOH. By Monday evening, Taylor had the room, Dee and Drew had the nominations, and Devens was telling himself the remaining Veto outcomes looked good for him.
Then Dee started talking to the cameras after midnight.
She believed Devens would be extremely difficult to beat. She had been telling Drew that. She could see the appeal of Drew winning Veto and evicting him. But when she considered making the same decision herself, she hesitated and returned to cutting Devens at Final Three.
Dee can explain why Devens should leave. The uncomfortable part is whether she will actually send him out when the opportunity belongs to her.
4:31–4:34 PM BBT — Taylor Wins HOH and Ends the Trio’s Preferred Final Three
The feeds returned around 4:31 PM, and Taylor was soon visible wearing the HOH key. This was the Final Four competition: the win secured Final Three, with the final HOH contest still ahead.
The houseguests described a puzzle involving mixed-up faces. Drew complained about the competition having two rounds and wished it had ended after one. Dee was frustrated with her performance and did not want to relive another puzzle loss. Taylor discussed using differences in the pictures’ shading to work through the challenge.
The result mattered more than the complaints. Devens, the outgoing HOH, could not compete. Drew and Dee both had the chance to keep Taylor available for eviction. Neither did.
Drew quickly recognized the consequence: he, Dee and Devens could no longer all make Final Three. At least one of them would have to leave before Taylor did.
That is a substantial win for Taylor even before anyone argues about her jury chances. She removed herself from the next eviction and made three people with overlapping loyalties choose between each other. Whatever happens with Veto, nobody gets to describe her survival this round as a favor they did for her.
4:42 PM BBT — Devens Thinks Every Veto Outcome Gives Him a Way Through
Devens’ first private assessment was remarkably comfortable for someone who had just lost the protection of his HOH.
He expected Drew to evict Dee if Drew won Veto. He expected Dee to evict Drew if she won. He also expected a Taylor Veto win to produce Drew’s eviction.
Those were Devens’ predictions. Taylor would not personally cast the eviction vote as HOH; a Veto win would let her determine which non-HOH houseguest remained off the block to cast it.
Still, the confidence explained how Devens saw his position. He believed his separate relationships could carry him through a round he did not necessarily have to win himself.
There is real social work behind having multiple people consider keeping you. The danger is treating each person’s reassurance as a settled decision. At Final Four, someone can like Devens, want his approval and still decide that beating him in the final vote is too much to ask.
Dee’s overnight camera talk would expose exactly that tension.
4:50–4:51 PM BBT — Dee and Devens Work on Taylor’s Final Two Options
Dee and Devens discussed telling Taylor that each would take her to the end. They also believed Drew would prefer bringing one of them over Taylor if he reached the final decision.
That gave them an obvious pitch: Taylor should feel that keeping both veterans would leave her with two possible routes to the Final Two.
It also gave Taylor a reason to be careful. Two people making the same promise are useful only if at least one intends to honor it. Their willingness to coordinate what she hears does not prove what either would do with the final HOH.
Taylor had already earned Final Three. The remaining sales job concerned who would sit beside her there, and which of those people might bring her to the final two chairs.
Dee and Devens were trying to make their continued partnership look compatible with Taylor’s individual chances. That is a sensible pitch for them. Taylor still has to judge whether it is a sensible arrangement for her.
After 5 PM BBT — Drew Starts Treating Taylor Like a Potential Winner
Drew told Dee and Devens that Taylor could beat them at the end. His concern was no longer hypothetical: she had just won the competition that none of them could undo.
That did not establish a jury verdict. Drew was making an assessment from inside the house, with the same incomplete information everyone else has about the jurors’ current thinking.
But his reaction showed the immediate change in how he viewed Taylor. A player who could be discussed as the next person to remove was now safe, with a meaningful late-game win to explain on finale night.
The others do not have to believe Taylor played the best overall game to recognize that she has become dangerous. They need to consider her relationships, what she can explain to the jury and whether they would get another chance to stop her.
They lost the chance to do it at Final Four. That part is settled.
Around 6 PM BBT — Drew and Devens Discuss Cutting Dee
The clearest reason not to declare Drew the inevitable next eviction came from Drew’s own conversation with Devens.
They discussed Dee as a difficult person to beat in the final vote. Drew acknowledged that sending her home would be hard. Devens agreed and framed the choice as a situation in which he could not let personal attachment make the decision for him.
That is a very different conversation from Devens being committed to keeping Dee under every possible outcome.
It also complicates Dee’s later confidence that a Devens Veto win would mean Drew leaving. Dee might expect that protection. Devens was giving Drew reasons to expect protection too.
Neither conversation should be mistaken for an eviction that has already happened. The useful information is that Devens was preserving an option with Drew while maintaining his relationship with Dee.
For Drew, the appeal is clear: if Devens genuinely believes Dee is harder to beat, Drew has a reason for Devens to keep him beyond friendship. The risk is equally clear. Drew would be trusting Devens to choose him, then potentially needing to beat the same man he helped preserve.
7:03–7:19 PM BBT — Taylor Gets Her HOH Room and Names Dee and Drew
Taylor received her HOH room shortly after 7 PM. Her letter came from her mother, and her music was Kehlani. After a day that began with Taylor still vulnerable to eviction, she finally had space to enjoy a win that belonged to her.
She also understood the limits of the round’s nomination power. Taylor told the others that Veto would determine the crucial decision, and she individually informed them that she intended to nominate Dee and Drew.
Drew did not turn the nomination conversation into a confrontation. He joked about catching up with Taylor’s trips to the block and acknowledged how little the initial nominations determine at four.
The ceremony followed that evening, leaving Dee and Drew nominated and Devens off the block.
That last distinction needs to stay precise. Devens was not nominated initially. He was not guaranteed safety. If either nominee wins Veto and saves themselves, he becomes the only available replacement.
Taylor is the only person whose Final Three place was secured at this point.
9:45–10:23 PM BBT — Drew and Devens Keep Their Partnership Alive
The night supplied more evidence that Drew and Devens still considered their relationship useful.
They exchanged their finger-gun alliance gesture. Later, they discussed how obvious their partnership had been, including whether nominating one another had made people believe they were less connected. Drew said he had not told people that Devens had volunteered for the block.
By around 10:23 PM, they were again encouraging each other, hugging and looking ahead to the last Veto.
That does not mean neither would ever cut the other. It means the partnership was still being actively maintained after Melody’s eviction and Taylor’s HOH win.
This matters when evaluating Dee’s hope that Drew could remove Devens. She would not be asking him to cut someone he had already abandoned. She would be asking him to break a relationship he continued to reinforce throughout the evening.
There may be a strong argument for Drew to do that. There was not yet a confirmed decision that he would.
10:05–10:06 PM BBT — Drew Counts the People He May Have Upset
Drew’s confidence looked shakier when the discussion turned to the jury.
He worried about his role in LaLa’s eviction. He acknowledged that he had not connected with Angela. He was uncertain about Barrett, although Devens argued that Barrett would support him. Drew also hoped he would have Melody’s vote, while Devens questioned whether that could be taken for granted.
Yash came up too, with Drew acknowledging that their decisions had given him reasons to be unhappy with them.
These conversations are revealing because they show Drew beginning to separate surviving the game from winning it. A competition can keep him in the house. It cannot require the people he helped eliminate to accept his explanation afterward.
That does not mean the jury will be bitter, or that Drew has already lost anyone’s vote. It means he has real decisions to explain. Assuming Barrett will understand, Melody will support him or Yash will respect the move is not a substitute for making a convincing case.
Devens also benefits from Drew seeing him as a manageable final opponent. When the two discuss their chances together, each has an incentive to make the other comfortable with that pairing.
Drew should be testing that assumption as carefully as he tests the women’s jury support. Being reassured by the person who wants you to take him to the end is useful information about his pitch, not independent proof of your chances.
11:50–11:58 PM BBT — Dee Warns Drew About Taylor’s Final Speech
Later, Drew again worried that Taylor could beat them. Dee pushed back against treating defeat as inevitable, but she also warned him about Taylor’s ability to speak.
Her advice was specific: if Drew ended up beside Taylor, he needed a serious, persuasive presentation. Jokes alone would not carry him against someone she considered a strong public speaker.
That was one of the more useful pieces of endgame advice given all night. A finalist has limited time to connect their decisions into a coherent argument. Being involved in a lot of moves does not automatically explain why those moves should earn the money.
Dee encouraged Drew to bring the passion she had seen from him. Drew wanted to win but did not sound certain that he could.
Dee also told him she would rather sit beside him or Devens. That is part of the case she was making to Drew, not a promise that can be removed from the conversation and treated as binding.
The jury projections remained guesses. Taylor’s speaking ability is a legitimate concern; assigning her a fixed collection of votes before the jurors have voted is not.
12:03–12:11 AM BBT — Dee’s Private Plan Has a Devens Problem
Once Dee spoke to the cameras after midnight, the conflict in her thinking became much clearer.
She did not feel that she was going home. She expected Devens to evict Drew if he won Veto. She also believed Taylor would give her the deciding vote if Taylor won and used the Veto on her.
Those expectations describe the protection Dee thinks she has. They do not settle what either player would actually do.
Dee then returned to the problem of beating Devens. She believed he would be exceptionally difficult to defeat and acknowledged that she had damaged relationships on the jury. She said she had been telling Drew he would lose beside Devens.
By 12:09 AM, Dee floated Drew winning Veto and evicting Devens as a potentially ideal outcome.
The appeal is obvious. Dee would advance without personally casting the vote against her longtime ally. Drew would accept responsibility for the eviction, and Devens would no longer be available to win his way into the final two chairs.
But a minute later, when Dee considered winning the power herself, she questioned whether she could evict Devens to his face. She returned to the idea of cutting him at Final Three.
That is the weakness in the plan. Final Three is not a guaranteed opportunity to make the same decision later. Dee would still need the final HOH, or another finalist willing to make the cut. Keeping Devens gives him another chance to win the power that prevents it.
Her reasoning also contained a second problem. Dee recognized that she and Devens had coordinated promises to Taylor about not taking each other to Final Two. Yet she also thought Taylor might want Devens retained because of his promise to take her.
Dee was considering the consequences of a pitch she had helped create. If Taylor believes Devens offers her a better route to the end, persuading Taylor to hand Dee the vote does not necessarily mean Taylor would welcome Dee using it against him.
Dee also considered using her puzzle struggles as an argument for being taken farther. There is logic in making herself look less threatening. But being someone other people want to bring is only half the job. She still needs a winning explanation once she gets there.
If Dee truly believes Devens is the opponent nobody can beat, delaying the cut deserves more scrutiny than the discomfort of making it.
Big Brother 28 Day 77 to Day 78: What Each Veto Result Means
All four remaining houseguests play for the Final Four Power of Veto. Taylor’s HOH safety cannot be removed. The other three are competing for both survival and influence over who joins her.
| Veto winner | What happens to the eviction decision |
| Drew Campbell | If Drew saves himself, Devens replaces him. Drew casts the sole vote between Dee and Devens. |
| Dee Valladares | If Dee saves herself, Devens replaces her. Dee casts the sole vote between Drew and Devens. |
| Rick Devens | Devens remains off the block and casts the sole vote between Dee and Drew. |
| Taylor Brown | Taylor determines the voter through her Veto decision: leave nominations unchanged and Devens votes; save Dee and Dee votes; save Drew and Drew votes. Taylor does not cast the eviction vote. |
That is why the initial nominations cannot settle the target discussion. Winning Veto would give Drew or Dee a choice that their current position on the block does not allow. A Devens win would force him to resolve the competing expectations he has encouraged. A Taylor win would require her to decide whose judgment she trusts with the sole vote.
At the coverage cutoff, no Final Four Veto winner had been confirmed. The houseguests expected the competition Tuesday. Their plans were still conditional.
Taylor’s Next Decision Is About the Final Three She Wants
Taylor can enjoy the HOH room without overlooking what comes next. The people offering her a path to Final Two are also discussing whether they can beat her there.
If she wins Veto, choosing the voter means evaluating both the immediate eviction and the pair of opponents left afterward. Saving someone who follows her preferred eviction plan would be useful. Saving someone who then reunites with the other survivor of the vote could leave her needing to win the final HOH herself.
The same scrutiny applies to promises from Dee and Devens. Taylor should consider each person’s individual incentive to take her, rather than treating two similar pitches as twice the security. Drew and Devens’ continuing partnership deserves that scrutiny as well.
Taylor has earned a concrete achievement she can explain to the jury: she won safety when losing would have left her vulnerable. How much credit she receives for the next eviction will also depend on what she does with any additional power she wins and how she explains her influence.
She does not need to pretend she controls every outcome. She needs to make the strongest decision available to her actual position.
1:38 AM BBT — Drew Ends the Night in Melody’s Pod
The final verified overnight entry brought the day back to Melody’s absence.
Drew went to sleep in her pod, carrying his pillow with him. Her name tag was beside his microphone pack on the chair near the bed. Devens had given him the tag earlier in the afternoon after finding it among his things.
It was a quieter ending to a day in which Drew lost a close relationship, missed the HOH and started preparing for another competition that could determine whether he stays.
His attachment to Melody and his continuing partnership with Devens existed alongside each other. The night showed both. Neither should be erased to make his game easier to explain.
Final Thoughts
Taylor’s HOH is the decisive change in this Big Brother 28 Day 77 to Day 78 update. It guarantees her another round and makes the remaining three choose which relationship they can afford to lose.
Drew has reasons to fight for Veto beyond escaping the block. Winning would let him choose his opponent instead of waiting for someone else’s promise to hold. Devens has cultivated enough options to feel comfortable, but those options include people discussing whether he is too dangerous to keep.
Dee’s position is the most revealing. She sees a possible benefit in Drew evicting Devens while admitting she may struggle to do it herself.
If the Veto gives her that choice, she will have to decide whether protecting the relationship is worth giving Devens another chance to end her game.
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